The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hamadan, Iran.
Prior to 20th century
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- 640s - Arabs in power.[1]
- 806 - City besieged by forces of al-Amin.[1]
- 931 - City besieged by forces of Ziyarid Mardāvij.[1]
- 956 - Earthquake.[1]
- 976 - Buyid Mu'ayyad al-Dawla in power.
- 997 - Shams al-Dawla in power.[1]
- 1021 - Sama' al-Dawla in power.
- 1221 - City sacked by Mongols.[1]
- 1224 - City sacked by Mongols again.[1]
- 1315 - Gunbad-i Alayvian built (approximate date).[2]
- 1724 - City sacked by forces of Ahmad Pasha of Baghdad.[1]
- 1732 - City taken by forces of Nāder Shah Afšār; Ottomans ousted.[1]
- 1789 - Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar takes Hamadan.[1]
- 1838 - Congregational mosque built.[3]
- 1883 - Imamzadeh Hossein, Hamadan (shrine) built.
20th century
- 1920 - Population: 30,000-40,000 (approximate estimate).[4]
- 1932 - Hamadan power plant built.
- 1933 - City redesigned to accommodate motorcars; central Meidun-e Emam Khomeini and 6 radiating boulevards laid out.[5]
- 1940 - Population: 103,874.[6]
- 1952 - Avicenna Mausoleum erected.[2]
- 1963 - Population: 114,610 (estimate).[7]
- 1970 - Baba Taher Mausoleum erected.[2]
- 1973 - Bu-Ali Sina University established.
- 1976 - Population: 164,785 city;[6] 229,977 urban agglomeration.[8]
- 1986 - Population: 272,499.[6]
- 1996 - Population: 401,281.[9]
21st century
- 2007 - PAS Hamedan F.C. (football club) formed.
- 2009 - Shahid Mofatteh Stadium opens.
- 2011 - Population: 525,794.[10]
- 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
- 2014 - Syed Mustafa Rasul becomes mayor.[11]
See also
- History of Hamadan (de)
- Ecbatana, ancient city at site of present-day Hamadan[12]
- Hamadan Province history
- Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aḏkāʾi 2012.
- 1 2 3 "(Hamadan)". ArchNet. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
- ↑ Mousavi 2012.
- ↑ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Eshragh 2012.
- 1 2 3 Zanjani 2012.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
- ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
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- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- ↑ "معارفه سرپرست شهرداري همدان". Municipality.hamedan.ir (in Persian). Hamedan Municipality. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ↑ Watson 1996.
This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- "Hamadan", Persia: Report for the Year 1903-04 on the Trade of Kermanshah and District, Diplomatic and Consular Reports, London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904, hdl:2027/uc1.b2872050
- Guy Le Strange (1905). "Jibal: (Hamadan)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. pp. 194–196.
- A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "(Hamadan)", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan, pp. 146–150
- W. Barthold (1984). "Ray and Hamadan". An Historical Geography of Iran. Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 121–132. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Hamadan", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 319+, ISBN 9781884964039 (Mostly about ancient Ecbatana)
- Parviz Aḏkāʾi (2012). "Hamadan: History, Islamic Period". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Abdolhamid Eshragh (2012). "Hamadan: Urban Plan". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Ali Mousavi (2012). "Hamadan: Monuments". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Habibollah Zanjani (2012). "Hamadan: Population". Encyclopædia Iranica.
in other languages
- Farhad Khosrokhavar [in French] (1979). "Le Comité dans la révolution iranienne: le cas d'une ville moyenne, Hamadan". Peuples Méditerranéens (in French) (9): 85–100. ISSN 0399-1253 – via Internet Archive.
- Parviz Aḏkāʾi (1994). Ketābšenāsi-e Hamadān (in Persian). Hamadān. OCLC 863471613.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hamadan.
- "Hamadan". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Items related to Hamadan, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
- "(Hamadan)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University.
Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
- "(Hamadan)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg,
Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
- Items related to Hamadan, various dates (via Europeana)
Images
Imam Khomeini Square, Hamadan, laid out in 1933
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